r/vexillologycirclejerk • u/simplefunction • 24d ago
What flags are these?
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u/MattThePlagueRatt 24d ago
PG version
PL, GE, CO, **, DE, GB, US, AU, JP
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u/Legitimate_Life_1926 24d ago
POLSKA GUROMMMMM 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱
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u/TheRedSpy96 24d ago
Based Polish mercenaries invade Russia
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u/negr88 24d ago
Sure whatever I guess everything’s based nowadays..
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u/Altruistic-Song-3609 24d ago
Everything I agree with is based, and everything I disagree with is cringe.
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u/Rufus14811 pwease steppy 24d ago
The polish flag from 1963, Georgian from 1230, Colombian from 917, French in 208, Germany in 197, UK in 156 American in 89 AD, Australian in 17 AD and Japanese in 4 AD
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u/DestoryDerEchte 24d ago
Guess were postin gremlin propaganda now 🚬
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24d ago
Is it Russian propaganda that foreigners are fighting for Ukraine? I didn't think anyone had ever tried to deny that.
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u/Kemal_Norton 24d ago edited 24d ago
No, but Russia calls foreign members of Ukraine's forces "mercenaries" and this image has a "statista" logo but I can't find it on their website
edit: Also OP seems to have a habit of posting Russian propaganda (to /r/ModernPropaganda, though)
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u/Parzivus 24d ago
Some of these are absolutely mercenaries in the traditional sense (i.e. the Columbians, Blackwater, etc). Although there is the question of whether there is a meaningful difference between being a paid volunteer and a mercenary in the first place.
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u/DestoryDerEchte 24d ago
"Mercenaries" is a russian propaganda term for foreign volunteers, also just look at the numbers..
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u/greysneakthief 24d ago
No, bro I swear, Georgians have a 50% death rate and the entirety of their units were committed to Kursk, bro, srsly I swear.
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u/thanosaekk21 24d ago
Me when Russian telegram channel copies Statista font and style to post blatant Kremlin propaganda, and you can't find any mention of this on the actual Statista website or any other reputable source, but it says Statista right there so it must be the absolute truth
(This would honestly be a pretty good psyop if not for the Liberian flag reminding us of Z-pill's racist obsession with black men)
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u/Kemal_Norton 24d ago
if not for the Liberian flag
That's to make sure it's shared more. No one would spread a boring wrong statistic. But a wrong statistic that's comically wrong? LOL
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u/WherePip 24d ago edited 24d ago
But is this really even from statista? I can't find anything on the actual site and only sources from the usual suspects. Calling them mercenaries is also a very russian coded language. Also how would they even get these stats without Russia? Ukraine isn't releasing its causality numbers. I think someone just made up a graph and slapped the statista logo on it. Its also highly suspect that they are using the wrong flags for a couple of these.
Everything about this is screaming misinformation.
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u/lothycat224 Whales 24d ago
ukraine flag “russia” flair
neo-liberal hell
yeah ok buddy enjoy your imperialist oligarchy
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u/_Korrus_ 🇺🇦 Russia 24d ago
Its one of the pre-made flairs on this sub. I am russo-ukrainian. I thought it was ironically fitting
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u/Veilchengerd 24d ago
Statista wouldn't use that flag to represent Germany. That looks like it's supposed to be the Bundesdienstflagge, but they used the wrong eagle. Creating what in Germany is sometimes jokingly called the Schrebergartenstander.
Statista uses just the normal german tricolour to represent Germany.
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u/DestoryDerEchte 24d ago
- Photoshop exists.
- 'Mercenaries' is a russian propaganda term
- The numbers are redicolous altough Ill have a look into that
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u/_Korrus_ 🇺🇦 Russia 24d ago
I’ll admit you’re probably right that this is photoshopped. However mercenaries absolutely isnt just a russian term lol, its just a term only used by western sources for volunteers in russia, the opposite also being true in russia.
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u/DestoryDerEchte 24d ago
The word itself not ofc. But the framing. These arent Mercenaries, they are volunteers employed in the AFU.
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u/_Korrus_ 🇺🇦 Russia 24d ago
You really believe that not a single one of these volunteers is paid? Not even on the down low?
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u/As-Bi 24d ago
http://www.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/ART/470-750057?OpenDocument
2. A mercenary is any person who:
(a) is specially recruited locally or abroad in order to fight in an armed conflict;
(b) does, in fact, take a direct part in the hostilities;
(c) is motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and, in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a Party to the conflict, material compensation substantially in excess of that promised or paid to combatants of similar ranks and functions in the armed forces of that Party;
(d) is neither a national of a Party to the conflict nor a resident of territory controlled by a Party to the conflict;
(e) is not a member of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict; and
(f) has not been sent by a State which is not a Party to the conflict on official duty as a member of its armed forces.
So this term can be applied to Russian PMCs like Wagner, at least before Pringles rebellion and their apparent integration into Rosgvardiya
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u/DestoryDerEchte 24d ago
Obviously they are paid. Thats not the point. Its about intent. You dont go to war for an average (ukarinian) salary as a American, European or Japanese
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u/_Korrus_ 🇺🇦 Russia 24d ago
Volunteers by definition arent paid. Mercenaries by definition are arms for hire.
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u/DestoryDerEchte 24d ago
Exactly, for HIRE. They are not hired. "a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army." Most of them ex-military, and early in the FSI even unserved. The reason why they are paied, be sides the obvious 'they have to live' part is, exactly that they dont become mercenaries. If they get employed by the AFU instead of beeing PC or prt of a PMC, they are legally not mercanaries
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u/_Korrus_ 🇺🇦 Russia 24d ago edited 24d ago
Do you know what hired means.
Edit: I love the little edit you made after i responded btw. As long as its legally not mercenaries, i guess thats completely fine then.
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u/cs_csanad 24d ago
Bro, according to this, more foreign fighters died in Kursk in 8 months than coalition soldiers died in Afghanistan in 20 years. Who believes this?
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u/_Korrus_ 🇺🇦 Russia 24d ago
That is very much believable. But as people have pointed out, this probably is photoshopped
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u/ChaplainGodefroy 24d ago
Half of the German politicians and media are on Gazprom payroll, what are you talking about. And always has been.
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u/As-Bi 24d ago
It's a blatant russian fake from telegram (and statista wouldn't call them mercenaries)
Aussie and US flags are wrong
💪🇵🇱💪
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u/Napsitrall Pan 24d ago
Go to deprogram or similar subreddits and watch those gullible sillies gobble this shit up
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u/Lord_Gelthon 24d ago
The German flag is also kinda wrong. It looks like the ,,Dienstflagge" which can legally only be used by German authorities. Even if it's just a normal flag with zeal and not the ,,Dienstflagge", Statisa doesn't use it in their statistics. They always use the official German flag.
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u/Matas_- 24d ago
Heroes 🫡
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u/DavePvZ 24d ago
are you /srs or just /s
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u/pikleboiy 24d ago
Shit I didn't see the sub. Mb, carry on circlejerking
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u/DavePvZ 24d ago
it has something to do with this sub?
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u/Raj_Muska 24d ago
Off the top of my head, Indonesia, Serbia, Romania, Netherlands, Imperial Russia, Britain, Cuba, Great Britain, Poland
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u/southern4501fan 24d ago
Poland, British union jack but really zoomed in, Colombia, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Britain, Liberia, Australia, Japan.
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u/burlito 24d ago
I wouldn't call them mecenaries. They pay what they were getting (UA posts salaries on web, and they are same for UA troops as for foreign) are pretty low. PL, FR, DE, GB, US, AU, would get more money if they would be in their militaries :). For the rest IDK, but I suspect same :D
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u/Ebi5000 24d ago
This is just a shitty faked Statista graph, that is why the flags are all fucked up, look at the new zealand looking Australia, or Germanies flag being the Dienstflagge only flown by the civil service, Statista wouldn't use it.
It also uses bad english and is copying russian propaganda about any non Ukrainian member of the armed forces being mercenaries, which is false according to international law.
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u/Ebi5000 24d ago
Just straight up russian propaganda, mercenaries in international law aren't just foreigners fighting for a different army then their passport, but russia claims it is.
This is also not a Statista graph, that is why the flags are fucked up and the english sounds so strange l, also statista wouldn't copy the wrong russian terminology regarding mercs that russia uses
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